Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez was both a fervent soccer fan and a tireless writer who rebelled against the idea that age should lessen his love of either pursuit.
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old,” he said. “They grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
In that case, soccer has been like a fountain of youth for Bruce Arena, Sigi Schmid and Bob Bradley, three Hall of Famers who haven’t tired of pursuing dreams despite a combined 114 years of coaching.
In the last five days Arena, 65, won a CONCACAF Gold Cup title as coach of the U.